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Religion Unplugged
The 300-Year-Old Monastery in Japan That’s Full of Westerners
January 6, 2025
In the rural mountains of Okayama sits Songenji — a 300-year old Zen temple that is both a pillar of Japanese discipline and tradition and a maverick of globalism and progress. It’s a place where women live and study Zen side-by-side with men as coeds (something once unheard of), and the sangha (monastic order) is mostly Western foreigners.
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The ATA Chronicle
How Literally Should Spiritual Texts Be Translated?
August 1, 2024
Do translations of spiritual texts have to be so foreign-sounding? Do non-literal translations distort the
words of the prophets and sages? A translator of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist scripture weighs in on the subject.
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Lacuna Magazine
Redacted Fantasy: China’s Dystopian Censorship of Online Fiction
November 28, 2023
China’s crackdown on fantasy literature and video games poses a critical obstacle to readers, authors, and those who seek to make these works accessible. Why restrict these apparently innocuous stories? Eric R Stone relays accounts from censored writers who describe how censorship and outright banning of certain concepts, words, and allusions render works of fiction unintelligible.
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